Cinema of Australia

Cinema of Australia
No. of screens	2,210 (2017)[1]
• Per capita	10.1 per 100,000 (2017)[1]
Main distributors	Village Roadshow/Warner Bros. (26.0%) Paramount (19.0%) 20th Century Studios (Disney) (12.0%)[2]
Produced feature films (2017)[1]
Total	55
Fictional	35 (63.6%)
Animated	0 (0%)
Documentary	20 (32.7%)

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The cinema of Australia had its beginnings with the 1906 production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, arguably the world's first feature film. Since then, Australian crews have produced many films, a number of which have received international recognition. Many actors and filmmakers with international reputations started their careers in Australian films, and many of these have established lucrative careers in larger film-producing centres such as the United States.

Commercially successful Australian films include: Crocodile Dundee, George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge!, and Chris Noonan's Babe. Award-winning productions include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, The Tracker, Shine and Ten Canoes.

Cinema in Australia is subject to censorship, called classification. Films may be refused classification, which means they are effectively banned.